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Complete Critical Guide To Robert Browningby Stefan Hawlin
Routledge 2001; US$ 28.95The major strengths of The Complete Critical Guide To Robert Browning are its clarity, its comprehensiveness, and the judiciousness of its critical and theoretical discourse. Because of these qualities it will be useful to students and scholars alike Thomas J. Collins more...
Reading Between the Linesby Annabel Patterson
Routledge 1993; US$ 39.95Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - the `Great Books Debate' and the question of teaching the canon of English literature. Her superbly formulated moderate stance will be a welcome attribute to the debate. more...
Of Chastity and Powerby Philippa Berry
Routledge 1994; US$ 39.95Through a reading of the texts of Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Spenser and Shakespeare, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neopatonic mysticism which became associated with Elizabeth I. more...
Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissanceby Kenneth Borris
Routledge 2003; US$ 130.00This anthology of key literary, philosophical, religious and scientific texts published during the English Renaissance addresses key issues in Renaissance thinking about sexual identity. more...
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Cultureby Christopher Ivic; Grant Williams
Routledge 2004; US$ 181.00Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts. more...
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literatureby David Loewenstein; Janel Mueller
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 66.00The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature narrates the history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. The twenty-six chapters written by a team of distinguished scholars will prove essential reading for students and scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, culture, and history. more...
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literatureby Jennifer Richards
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book explores the early modern interest in conversation. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the philosopher Cicero. Recognising his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. more...
Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissanceby Alex Davis
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. more...
Making the English Canonby Jonathan Brody Kramnick
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 35.00Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details how the idea of literary tradition emerged out of a prolonged engagement with the institutions of cultural modernity, from the public sphere and national identity to capitalism and the print market. Looking at a wide variety of eighteenth-century critical writing, he analyzes the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence. more...
Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660by Alison Shell
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 50.00The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. more...









